Eugene Roe

Eugene Roe (17 October 1922-30 December 1998) was a US Army Technician 4th Grade who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

Biography
Eugene Roe was born in Bayou Chene, Louisiana on 17 October 1922 to a Methodist Cajun family. He went to work at a young age, and he enlisted in the US Army airborne infantry in December 1942, becoming one of Easy Company's medics. Roe took part in the Operation Overlord airborne invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 and was already a seasoned medic by the Battle of Carentan later that month. Roe cut his calf after landing on barbed wire during Operation Market Garden in September 1944, but he continued fighting alongside his company, saving lives during the Battle of the Bulge; he befriended a Belgian nurse in Bastogne, but she was killed during the German bombing of the city. Roe remained with Easy Company during its occupation duties in Germany and Austria, and he was discharged on 17 November 1945. He became a construction contractor in Baton Rouge after the war, and he died of lung cancer in 1998 at the age of 76.